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This journal is published by the Scottish Reformation Society, The Magdalen Chapel, 41 Cowgate, Edinburgh, EH1 1JR. Subscription enquiries should be directed to the editor Rev Douglas W B Somerset (dwbsomerset(at)gmail.com)

Vols. 1-10 (2011-2020)

Vols. 11- (2021- )

 

Vol. 1 (2011)
Vol. 2 (2012)
Vol. 3 (2013)
Vol. 4 (2014)
Vol. 5 (2015)
Vol. 6 (2016)
Vol. 7 (2017)
Vol. 8 (2018)
Vol. 9 (2019)
Vol. 10 (2020)

Volume 1 (2011)

On-line Resource D. Hay Fleming, "Was Knox a Royal Chaplain?" Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 1-11.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew Vogan, "Samuel Rutherford and the Theology and Practice of Preaching," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 13-37. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "Thomas Boston and the Authorship of 'Queries to the Friendly-Adviser'," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 39-58.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
Article in Journal or Book John Smith, "Alexander Dyce Davidson, D.D. (1807-1872), Free Church Minister in Aberdeen," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 59-88.
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "Angus of the Hills (c.1809-c.1854)," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 89-108.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John Keddie, "Professor James MacGregor: Theological and Practical Writings, 1868-1881," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 109-127.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "David Hay Fleming (1849-1931): Scottish Church Historian and Antiquarian," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 129-240. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Giving Out the Line: A Cross-Atlantic Comparison of Two Presbyterian Cultures," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 241-265.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "Short Note: Mistress Rutherford and Ulster in the Summer of 1634," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal Vol. 1 (2011): 267-271.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 2 (2012)

On-line Resource Matthew Winzer, "The Constitutional Principle of the Scottish Reformation: 1547-1648," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 1-42. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "Robert Bruce in Inverness," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 43-84.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "Walter Ker and the 'Sweet Singers'," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 85-108.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew Vogan, "Alexander Shields, the Revolution Settlement and the Unity of the Visible Church," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 109-146. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "Notes on the Literary Labours of the Apostle of the North," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 147-165.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John Smith, "Robert Shanks of Buckie (1798-1884)," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 167-195.View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
On-line Resource John Keddie," Professor James MacGregor and the Case of William Robertson Smith," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 197-219. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Resistance to the 1892 Declaratory Act in Argyllshire," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 221-274. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "The Chisholmites of Achmore," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 275-291. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
  Short Note:
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Additional Data on Giving Out the Line in English," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 293-298. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource "Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol.1," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 2 (2012): 301. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 3 (2013)

On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "John Knox and the Destruction of the Perth Friaries in May 1559," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 1-34.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Jeffrey Stephen, "The Covenanters, Unity in Religion, and Uniformity of Church Government in the 1640s: Presbytery by Coercion or Co-operation?" Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 35-70. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robert Dickie, "The Scots Church in Rotterdam - a Church for Seventeenth Century Migrants and Exiles. Part I," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 71-108.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew Vogan, "Alexander Shields, the Revolution Settlement and the Unity of the Visible Church. Part II," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 109-157. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Andrew R Middleton, "The Attitude of James Begg and The Watchword magazine to the 1872 Education Act," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 159-219. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "The Witness of the Kames Free Presbyterian Church, Argyllshire," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 221-272. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John Keddie, "Movements in the Main-Line Presbyterian Churches in Scotland in the Twentieth Century," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 273-297. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Short Note: The Sabbath Protest at Strome Ferry in 1883," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 299-310. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource "Addenda and Corrigenda," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 313. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 4 (2014)

On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "The "Alteration of Religion" in Aberdeen in 1559: an ancient and persistent historical error," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 4 (2014): 1-62. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "The Reforming of the Aberdeen Friaries on 4th January 1559/60," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 63-95. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Jeffrey Stephen, "The Commissions for Visitations North and South of the River Tay 1690-1695," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 97-133. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "Jonathan Ranken Anderson and the Free Church of Scotland - Part I," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 135-274. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
Article in Journal or Book Archibald MacWhirter, "The Last Anti-Burghers: A Footnote to Secession History," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 275-340.
  Short Notes:
On-line Resource Douglas Somerset, "Joseph Robertson and the Scottish Reformation," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 341-351. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
Article in Journal or Book Alan Boyd, "Lining out the Psalm in Tiree, " Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 353-361.
On-line Resource "Addenda and Corrigenda," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 3 (2013): 363. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 5 (2015)

Article in Journal or Book Douglas Somerset, "The Scottish Reformation in late June 1559: the destruction of the friaries of Stirling, Linlithgow, Glasgow, and Edinburgh," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 1-33.
On-line Resource Matthew Vogan, "Samuel Rutherford's Experience and Doctrine of Conversion," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 35-62. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Jeffrey Stephen, "The Not So Conservative North: Covenanting Strength in 1638-39," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 63-81. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robert Dickie, "The Scots Church in Rotterdam – a Church for Seventeenth Century Migrants and Exiles. Part II," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 83-127. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John W. Keddie, "The Awakenings in Skye (1812-1814)," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 129-144. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Rev. James Wright of Infirmary Street and Lauriston Street, Edinburgh," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 145-209. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "Jonathan Ranken Anderson and the Free Church of Scotland – Part II," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 211-318. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "Jonathan Ranken Anderson's Critique of the Free Church of Scotland in the 1850s," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 321-351. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
Article in Journal or Book John Smith, "Man of Skye: Rev. Roderick MacCowan (1871-1948)," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 353-397.
On-line Resource "Addenda and Corrigenda," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 5 (2015): 399-400. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 6 (2016)

On-line Resource Douglas B. Somerset, "John Row the Reformer and the Miracle at Loretto," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 1-21. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas B. Somerset, "John Knox's House and John Knox's Grave," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 23-51. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew Vogan, "Conventicles from the First to the Second Reformation in Scotland," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 53-85. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas B. Somerset, "Notes on some Scottish Covenanters and Ultra-Covenanters of the Eighteenth Century – Part I," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 87-130. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Gordon J. Keddie, "The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Disruption of 1863," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 133-172. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "Jonathan Ranken Anderson – An Annotated Bibliography," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 175-221. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "Herbert Baston Pitt of Trowbridge – J. R. Anderson's twentieth-century publisher," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 223-246. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell & Douglas B. Somerset, "A Note on James Wright and Andrew Lambie," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 247-257. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Jeffrey Stephen, "Book Review – Bishops and Covenanters: a modern Episcopal version of Scotland's Glorious Revolution," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 259-277. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource "Addenda and Corrigenda," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 6 (2016): 279. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 7 (2017)

On-line Resource Douglas B. Somerset, "Changing Views on the Scottish Reformation During the Twentieth Century," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 1-55. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

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 Chris Coldwell, "James Durham's 1652 Sermon on Ephesians 4:11-12 Taught Before the Synod of Glasgow," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 57-71. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Justin B. Stodghill, "Alexander Shields' Response to Sir Robert Hamilton in 1690," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 73-103. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew Vogan, "The Origins of John Willison's Emphasis on the Lord's Supper," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 105-138. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "John Love in London – Part I: From Licensing in Scotland to Ordination in London," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 139-191. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robert J. Dickie, "Robert Murray McCheyne – was he twice engaged to be married?" Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 193-213. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robert J. Dickie, "Jessie Thain (1821-1889) and her family," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 215-250. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John W. Keddie, "The 1859 Revival (Particularly in Glasgow)," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 251-270. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Rev. Walter Macleod: a wise penman," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 271-281. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource "Addenda and Corrigenda," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 7 (2017): 283-286. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 8 (2018)

On-line Resource Douglas W. B. Somerset, "The spirituali movement in Scotland before the Reformation of 1560," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 1–43. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John W. Keddie, "George Gillespie and the Westminster Assembly," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 44–57. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew A. Vogan, "Samuel Rutherford’s Unpublished Sermons," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 58–69. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "John Love in London – Part 2: A History of the Crispin Street Congregation," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 70–184. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Walter Macleod: missionary in France (1855–6)," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 185–195. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
Article in Journal or Book John Smith, "The MacBeath brothers of Castletown, Caithness, 1843–1879," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 196–239.
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Caithness religious conservatism: an individualist or corporate phenomenon?" Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 240–283. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Paul Murray, "Why did the Free Church of Scotland alter its subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith in 1892?" Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 284–328. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
Article in Journal or Book Mairi Campbell and Douglas Somerset, "On the Records of the Edinburgh Hammermen," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 329–334.
On-line Resource "Addenda and Corrigenda," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 8 (2018): 337. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 9 (2019)

On-line Resource Matthew A. Vogan, "David Dickson: A Provisional Bibliography," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019): 1–15. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew A. Vogan, "Sir George Maxwell of Pollok (1622–1677) and his personal covenants," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019):16–41. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robert J. Dickie, "The Scots Church in Rotterdam – a Church for Seventeenth Century Migrants and Exiles. Part III," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019): 42–58. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "John Love in London – Part 3: Ministry at Crispin Street and Artillery Street, Spitalfields," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019): 59–125. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "Scottish Missionaries ordained by the London Scots Presbytery in the 1790s," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019): 126–153. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John W. Keddie, "Missionary inquiry to Israel in 1839 and its consequences," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019): 154–171. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robin Gray, "The ‘New College’: the birth of a theological institution, 1843–1850," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019): 172–195. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "The Glasgow and West Coast Mission, 1855–1950," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 9 (2019): 196–204. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Volume 10 (2020)

Article in Journal or Book Connor Lord, "Pastoral Letters in the Counsel of John Knox," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 1–26.
On-line Resource Chris Coldwell, "Westminster Abbey Library: and Other Theological Resources of the Assembly Divines (1643–1652)," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 27–50. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Matthew A. Vogan, "Andrew Gray: A Provisional Bibliography," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 51–58. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robert J. Dickie, "The Scots Church in Rotterdam – a Church for Seventeenth Century Migrants and Exiles. Part IV," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 59–81. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas W.B. Somerset, "Scottish covenanting, Jesuit, and Quaker printing in Holland, 1664-1684," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 82–113. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Douglas W.B. Somerset, "George Leslie, Jesuit, and the printing of Lesley’s De Origine, 1675," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 114–141. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Roy Middleton, "John Love in London – Part 4: The Origins of the London Missionary Society," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 142–207. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource John W. Keddie, "Thomas Chalmers: ‘The chief Scottish Man of his Time’," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 208–226. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Robin Gray, "Alexander Moody Stuart: his spheres of influence," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 227–237. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource Norman Campbell, "Letters of Agnes Stobo," Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal 10 (2020): 238–248. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

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